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  • Beau Willimon The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Socrates The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Sir Thomas Beecham The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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  • William Nicholson The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.
    Motherland (2012)
    William Nicholson
    British playwright, screenplay and novelist (1948 - )
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  • John Berger The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bill Irwin The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Carson The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Confucius The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Marcel Proust The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Paine The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aldous Huxley The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Augustus William Hare The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bruce Coville The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Bill Hader The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Bobby Flay The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bobby Flay The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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